Making Huge Realistic 3D Environments - Blender

Looking at my workflow for the recent 'Gods Valley' 3D environment.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro

- Chapter 1 Reference -
03:00 1. Reference
04:20 1. iNaturalist

- Chapter 2 Asset Creation-
06:30 2. Gaea
12:01 2. Simple Building Modeling
15:30 2. SpeedTree

- Chapter 3 Scene Layout -
19:25 3. Shaping Foreground
23:00 3. Placing Monastery
23:05 3. Importing Mountains
24:58 3. HDRI Setup
25:20 3. Atmos Setup
25:55 3. Texturing the Road
26:05 3. Placing the Wall
26:49 3. Cliff Texturing and Sculpting
27:53 3. Last Changes

- Chapter 4 Scattering -
28:22 4. GeoScatter
29:09 4. Manually Scattering First Trees
30:55 4. Misc Tweaks
31:48 4. Adding Own Spruce Tree
33:00 4. Lake Setup
33:20 4. Cliff Trees
34:14 4. Smaller Vegetation
35:05 4. Rock Slides
34:41 4. Foreground Scatter Layers
40:51 4. Foliage on Monastery
41:17 4. Background Scatter Layers
42:17 4. Final Touches

- Chapter 5 Ending Remarks -
43:12 5. Sorry for being slow
45:32 5. Thanks Patrons

[Maarten-Nauta]

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[Hannibal]

This is amazing. I have been amazing by 3D environment for a long time and finally having someone who can show and teach, from start to end is really great. Thank you =)

[Maarten-Nauta]

Bruh I look sweaty in the intro hahaha. Thats what I get for recording while my pc is rendering.

Btw if at some points I sound like im falling asleep in the middle of my narration, A lot of this video was recorded deep in the night after spending all day on college so now you know ;)

[stache_obj]

dayyyuummm! that was a journey all right! just finished watching the whole thing and i just gotta say, can't even fathom the effort that would have taken to put it all together. appreciate you sharing the whole process. feels like i learned a lot. like a lot!
so thank you!

[HomieOficial]

This is one of the best breakouts i've ever seen!
The vibe, the narration, the music, the artwork, everything is great! And the final result is astonishing!

I hope you keep doing this. I appreciate all the work you've made.
Keep it up

[thorberg]

Breathtaking Art, I oove the vibe of your videos. Thanks a lot

[abdullaharshak.n]

Great work. Is there any speed tree tutorial based on your workflow(low poly).

[atharvamohite]

hello friend, i have been doing 3d animation since 6 months now and this is the best video that shows what are the steps of making realistic animations . thanku so much . i really learnt a lot .

[affinityd]

a new blender genius emerges in the youtube world, thank you for sharing this your workflow is really inspiring and I took many great tips from this. Please, don't stop that skillshare sponsor is right around the corner

[Stve_]

I live near the Monte Cervino in Italy and when I saw you rendering for the first time I thought you took a photo of it. The amount of details is insane!

[esprit]

I live in Lugano, Switzerland. You have to visit those places for real, they are amazing!

[aronk]

Thanks for all your efforts to make these tutorials!
For someone like me with environment background working with other software but starting to use Blender lately this is very informative and fun to watch.

[eloiart]

Absolute perfection, you are so talented !

[danielklos]

Great content! Thanks for sharing your workflow. Looking forward to see some more.

[momentum_animation_studio]

Amazing job documenting your process and sharing it! All the work you put into the making of this tutorial really shows. Thank you!

[MartinKlekner]

Whoa, this is breathtaking! Can't wait to watch this one, amazing job on the environment!

[levelheaded]

Great video I learned LOADS of cool stuff. That plant by region site is an amazing resource!! Look forward to seeing what else you come up with and congrats on the thesis!

[aguy]

Just looking at this makes my laptop heat up. Good work!

[Kurmeloinen]

Thoroughly enjoying your videos! There's the technical side which is very, very interesting to see - and then the nuggets of gold where you explain some of the logic and reveal the general mindset behind the choices with assets and what gets scattered where etc. Nature is so interesting and I love to see when someone replicates that beauty. So, thanks for sacrificing your night sleep I guess, and congrats on the thesis!

[ScraggyDogg]

Many thanks for sharing for free, Its a LOT of work, Ilove making environments also, and a bit new to blender, cant wait to upgrade my RAM to be able to do larger scenes.
Thanks for all the tips.